Richard Wilding

Richard Wilding is a photographer, film producer and heritage consultant, specialising in the documentation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage, historical architecture and archaeology. He has been working in the Middle East since 2010, producing books, exhibitions and documentary films, and leading heritage preservation projects in Saudi Arabia, North-East Syria and Iraq.

Richard has recently published books about the traditional costumes of Saudi Arabia and the heritage of Mleiha in the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE. He has given lectures at the universities of Cambridge, Exeter, Newcastle, Leicester, Reading and York, and at the University of Al-Qadisiyah, University of Diyala and University of Babylon in Iraq.

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